. Wilson's American ornithology : with notes by Jardine ; to which is added a synopsis of American birds, including those described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson . ; upper parts of a fine slate; primaries,brown black, and, as well as the secondaries, barred with dusky; scap-ulars, spotted with white and brown, which is not seen, unless theplumage be separated by the hand; all the feathers above are shafledMith black; tail, very slightly forked, of an ash color, faintly tingedwith brown, crossed with four broad bands of black, and tipt with white ;tail, three inches longer than
. Wilson's American ornithology : with notes by Jardine ; to which is added a synopsis of American birds, including those described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson . ; upper parts of a fine slate; primaries,brown black, and, as well as the secondaries, barred with dusky; scap-ulars, spotted with white and brown, which is not seen, unless theplumage be separated by the hand; all the feathers above are shafledMith black; tail, very slightly forked, of an ash color, faintly tingedwith brown, crossed with four broad bands of black, and tipt with white ;tail, three inches longer than the wings : over the eye extends a streakof dull white; chin, white, mixed with fine black hairs; breast andbelly, beautifully variegated with ferruginous and transverse spots ofwhite ; femorals, the same ; vent, pure white ; legs, long, very slender,and of a rich orange yellow; claws, black, large, and remarkablysharp ; lining of the wing, thickly marked with heart-shaped spots ofblack. This bird, on dissection, was found to be a male. In the monthof February, I shot another individual of this species, near Hampton,in Virginia, which agreed almost exactly with the present. GROUND DOVE. 409 GROUND DOVE. —COLUMBA PASSERINA.—Fig. 189, Male ;Fig. 190, Female. Lynn. Syst. 285. — Sloan. Jam. ii. 305. — Le Cocotzin, Fernandez, 24. — Buff. PL enl. 243. — Turt. Syst. 478. — Columba minuta, Ibid. p. 479. — p. 328, No. Catesb. —La petite tourterelle dAmerique, 113. CHJEMEPELM PASSERIJ^T.^. — Swainso n. Chaemepelia, Swain. N. Groups. Zool. Journ. No. XI. p. 361. —Columba passeri-na, (sub-genus Goura,) Bonap. Synop. p. 120. This is one of the least of the Pigeon tribe, whose timid and inno-cent appearance forms a very striking contrast to the ferocity of thepreceding bird. Such as they are in nature, such I have endeavoredfaithfully to represent them. I have been the more particular withthis minute species, as no correct figur
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